Thread: Blackberry's qwert slider revealed
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2015-09-01 , 14:53
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I think you misunderstand what I meant. Historically and rather unfortunately, the best selling devices since 2010 or so have not been unlocked nor with a bootloader that was easily alterable.
2010-13 is very different from 2014-now. The vast majority of big-selling relatively high end Android smartphones in the last year to 18 months are easily unlockable / rootable. Very easily.

However, given BB's history, I suspect they'll actively try to completely lock down any version they either don't offer unlocked, or offer a key / service to unlock. This simply isn't something other big global brands do anymore, because their customers hate it.

A lot of people don't even want root for 3rd party ROMs ... they just want to install apps or functionality to the phone which require root.
 

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